Tag: D-Day
How Foreign Conscripts Helped Hitler Defend ‘Fortress Europe’ on D-Day
(Originally published in MilitaryHistoryNow.com on June 6, 2012) ONE OF THE ironies of the June, 1944 Normandy campaign is that Third Reich, a regime so deeply obsessed with racial purity, would hold its Atlantic Wall in Europe…
D-Day Infographic — Brittany Ferries’ Guide to Historic Normandy
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops crossed the English Channel and fought their way into France. This week, a veritable army of D-Day veterans and their supporters will descend onto the same stretch of coastline…
Don’t Mention the War! – British Pundit Bemoans WW1 Centenary Coverage
With six months still to go until the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, some people have already had enough of the expansive media attention being paid to the commemorations. Simon…
